Chapter 58 Shadows Aligned

• The Veil was no longer silent.
• I stood still, breath sharp in my lungs, as the mirrors around me cracked one by one. They didn’t shatter into pieces like before. Instead, their shards softened, melting into pools of black glass that bled into the ground, weaving together until a narrow corridor stretched ahead.
• It pulsed, alive. Each step forward bent the world, folding shadow and light like liquid fabric.